Virus Hunter
Mark Olshaker co-wrote a celebrated series of nonfiction works with John Douglas, including the number one New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, as well as Journey into Darkness, Obsession, The Anatomy of Motive, and Unabomber, as well as the novel Broken Wings.
C. J. Peters is a world-renowned emerging disease expert and consultant. He has worked in the field of infectious diseases for more than three decades, most recently as the chief of special pathogens at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as the chief of the Disease Assessment Division at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Peters led the unit in Reston, Virginia that contained the Ebola outbreak, and he was instrumental in establishing the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), a Bio-safety Level 4 lab. He was appointed the John Sealy Distinguished University Chair in Tropical and Emerging Virology at UTMB in 2000.
In Virus Hunter, the author of The Hot Zone, who led the fight against Ebola, collaborates with the bestselling co-author of Mind Hunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses.
Dr. C. J. Peters has spent three decades on the front lines of our biological battle against "hot" viruses all over the world. Throughout his career, he learned a plethora of lessons about our interspecies turf wars with infectious agents. Called in to contain a deadly hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Bolivia, he faced the despair of attempting to save a colleague who had accidentally infected himself with an errant scalpel. Working on the Machupo and Ebola viruses in Level 4 labs, he saw firsthand why expensive high-tech biohazard containment equipment is only as safe as the people who use it.
Because of new, emerging viruses and the reemergence of old, "vanquished" ones for which vaccines do not exist, there is a very real risk of a new epidemic spreading globally virtually overnight if proper surveillance and early intervention are not implemented. And the threat of foreign countries or terrorist organizations employing lethal airborne viruses—the poor man's nuclear arsenal—looms larger than ever.
Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone, written in high-octane science writing at its best and most revealing. The book is among the best books on infectious disease.
Author: Mark Olshaker and C. J. Peters
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Hunter-Thirty-Battling-Viruses/dp/0385485581/
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars (from 96 reviews)
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